$170,000,000 | "Billionaire T. Boone Pickens' Mesa Vista Ranch in Texas"

Pickens became a billionaire through oil and natural gas, and had a net worth of $1 billion at the time of his death in 2019 at the age of 91. He was a former Amarillo resident and a graduate of Oklahoma State University, and decked Mesa Vista in various shades of orange in honor of OSU. In the early 2000s, he donated more than $200 million to the OSU athletic department, and the university renamed its football stadium after him.Pickens initially purchased the first 2,900 acres of Mesa Vista in 1971 and built a small corrugated metal livestock feed house. He sheltered in the feed house while quail hunting, according to mesavistaranch.com. It first went up for sale for $250 million in 2017.he land itself offers just as much variety, from rolling sand hills, prairies, mesas and elevated ridges. The elevation changes from 2,400 feet at the river bottom country to about 2,900 feet at the mesa tops.

"One of Boone’s major goals for the ranch was to enrich the land, returning it to an oasis for wildlife, much of which is back to its natural state of lush natural grasses, which have never been grazed," according to the release. "He was a leader in land conservation practices, which are now followed by many other ranchers in the United States."

There is also about 12 miles of man-made and recirculating creeks, lakes, waterfalls and ponds. Some of that water goes to Amarillo, due to city council's vote in July 2022 to purchase 15,768 acres of water rights in Roberts County.